Tag Archive: disaster movie

With the 70s being rife with disaster movies it is no surprise that Glen A. Larson decided to tackle the genre in Battlestar Galactica, and so in the tradition of Irwin Allen the crew of Galactica must fight a raging…Read more

This latest disaster epic once again pushes the theory that the surest way to patch up any relationship is to wait for an earthquake, twister or some other natural disaster and then bingo-bango-bongo all your problems will be solved, and…Read more

Irwin Allen’s Poseidon Adventure and Towering Inferno set the standard for disaster movies of the 70s, with some of the tropes of his films still surviving to this day, but it looks like South Korean director Kim Ji-hoon has taken up…Read more

This does seem to be another year of disaster movie mania, earlier in the year we got Pompeii which was basically Gladiator meets Titanic on the slopes of Dante’s Peak, then we had Darren Aronofsky’s Noah that of course is about the…Read more

There have been many post-apocalyptic movies dealing with civilization crumbling due to a variety of catastrophes from manmade to Mother Nature striking back and Joon-ho Bong, director of The Host (the monster one not the drippy Stephenie Meyer one), has now…Read more

In 1998 we were treated to two big disaster movies, both involving a comet heading for Earth. Now many people took great joy in poking fun at the ridiculous Michael Bay entry Armageddon, and I would be the first to…Read more